Daily Summary2026-09-02

Russia's digital ruble entered its legislated mandatory phase: the country's twelve largest banks must offer central-bank digital currency wallets and payments, and major retailers must accept them, per coverage, with citizen usage voluntary and a reported ₽300,000 monthly top-up cap. Separate reporting continued to describe a crypto framework limiting retail purchases to Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT with strict caps; that framework's go-live remains unconfirmed beyond a single report.

The London Stock Exchange agreed a partnership with Kraken's parent Payward to tokenize the 100 largest UK-listed companies through the xStocks platform, with first tokens expected on Kraken and allied venues in the coming weeks for investors in more than 110 countries — though not to UK-based investors, per the announcement and coverage. Each token is backed 1:1 by the underlying share, issued by Jersey-registered Backed Assets, and carries no voting rights. Subject to regulatory approval, the LSE plans to list xStocks on its LSE 24 extended-hours venue in 2027, and the firms will explore native on-chain share issuance through LSE infrastructure.

The Blake2b hard fork of the BIP-110 minority chain activated at block height 961,640 — earlier than expected, around August 30, with its backers preserving the running chain — and has since produced blocks roughly 3.6 times faster than its ten-minute schedule, implying about 780 TH/s of hashrate, which one analysis estimates at 9.5% of the global Blake2b fleet built for Siacoin mining. The project's documentation confirms transactions use identical signatures on both chains, with replay protection achieved manually per transaction; coverage documented OP_RETURN-based methods. The chain's coins have no established market price and major exchange support is unconfirmed.

The SEC proposed a broad update to its decades-old transfer agent rules — the regime governing the recordkeepers who track securities ownership — to accommodate blockchain recordkeeping and tokenised securities, per CoinDesk and Cointelegraph, and separately announced an event on round-the-clock US trading. Coverage framed the proposal as addressing the ownership-verification gap in current tokenised stock structures; no final text or implementation timeline was confirmed.